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RELATED WORDS : at a lower place at first at first blush at first glance at first sight at that place breathing place burying place double first eating place fall into place fictitious place first first aid first amendment first and foremost first and last first appearance first balcony first baron beveridge first baron kelvin first baron lytton first baron macaulay first baron marks of broughton first baron passfield first baron rutherford first baron rutherford of nelson first baron tennyson first base first baseman first battle of ypres first blush first cause first class first council of constantinople first council of lyons first council of nicaea first cousin first cranial nerve first crusade first degree first derivative first draft first duke of marlborough first duke of wellington first earl kitchener of khartoum first earl of beaconsfield first earl of chatham first earl of orford first earl wavell first epistle of john first epistle of paul the apostle to the corinthia first epistle of paul the apostle to the thessalon first epistle of paul the apostle to timothy first epistle of peter first epistle to the corinthians first epistle to the thessalonians first epistle to timothy first estate first floor first gear first grade first half first harmonic first impression first in first out first lady first language first lateran council first law of motion first law of thermodynamics first lieutenant first light first lord of the treasury first marquess cornwallis first mate first moment first mortgage first move first name first of all first of may first of october antifascist resistance group first off first offender first period first person first place first principle first prize first quarter first rate first reading first rudiment first sacker first sergeant first state first step first stomach first strike first string first team first thing first trimester first vatican council first viscount haldane of cloan first viscount nuffield first water first world war for the first time gathering place hiding place holy place imaginary place in a higher place in place jumping off place jumping-off place kepler's first law landing place last in first out lurking place meeting place mythical place nesting place newton's first law newton's first law of motion out of place place place bet place down place kick place mat place name place of birth place of business place of origin place of worship place setting place upright polling place pride of place resting place right of first publication secret place sergeant first class stay in place stopping place take place taking place to a higher place to a lower place watering place when first seen

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adverbial in the first place has 2 senses

• in the first place(r = adv.all) earlier, in the beginning, originally, to begin with - before now; "why didn't you tell me in the first place?"
• in the first place(r = adv.all) primarily - of primary import; "this is primarily a question of economics"; "it was in the first place a local matter"

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in the first place

Beginning

N beginning, commencement, opening, outset, incipience, inception, inchoation, introduction, alpha, initial, inauguration, debut, le premier pas, embarcation, rising of the curtain, maiden speech, outbreak, onset, brunt, initiative, move, first move, narrow end of the wedge, thin end of the wedge, fresh start, new departure, origin, source, rise, bud, germ, egg, rudiment, genesis, primogenesis, birth, nativity, cradle, infancy, start, inception, creation, starting point, dawn, evolution, title-page, head, heading, van, caption, fatihah, entrance, entry, inlet, orifice, mouth, chops, lips, porch, portal, portico, propylon, door, gate, gateway, postern, wicket, threshold, vestibule, propylaeum, skirts, border, first stage, first blush, first glance, first impression, first sight, rudiments, elements, outlines, grammar, alphabet, ABC, beginning, initial, initiatory, initiative, inceptive, introductory, incipient, proemial, inaugural, inchoate, inchoative, embryonic, rudimental, primogenial, primeval, primitive, primordial, aboriginal, natal, nascent, first, foremost, leading, maiden, begun, just begun, at the beginning, in the beginning first, in the first place, imprimis, first and foremost, in limine, in the bud, in embryo, in its infancy, from the beginning, from its birth, ab initio, ab ovo, ab incunabilis, ab origine, let's get going!, let's get this show on the road!, up and at 'em!, aller Anfang ist schwer, dimidium facti qui coepit habet, omnium rerum principia parva sunt.

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